Re: Is there any way to leverage the SSME and SRB technologies?


"JazzMan" <No_Spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> I see a lot of people arguing both sides of the technology
> questions, such that they are, but near as I can tell there
> aren't any "real, concrete, get it done" plans for using
> any of the actual shuttle technology for future designs. It
> seems to my uneducated mind that it would be fairly simple
> to reuse the SSME's and SRBs for heavy lift designs which is
> what I think we still need. That's why I'm asking, are there
> any "real" plans to reuse the SSMEs and SRBs?

ATK's proposals are as real as they get. Certainly development work will be
involved, especially for the upper stage for "the stick", the 5 segment SRB,
the stretched ET, and the new inline ET/SSME derived stage, but pretty much
all of the tooling for the SRB and ET could be used to manufacture these new
designs. There would certainly need to be mods made to the MLP and the
fixed launch tower to accommodate "the stick" and later SRB/ET designs, but
the initial Shuttle-C like design wouldn't require as many mods.

Jeff
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